Top 1200 Duke University Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on September 19, 2024.
As a former college president, I am well aware that every university is a complicated ecosystem, not a linear widget factory.
I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.
I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.
Life's a university that'll teach you lessons, regardless of your desire to pass the “class” or not, there is always something else to learn
I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso. There is art everywhere, murals on the walls. It's beautiful.
I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.
All through university years, I used to come up to Melbourne, go to Pizza Napoli with my friends and then to a movie.
I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.
I'm a student at Harvard University, and currently work as the United States Youth Poet Laureate, a community organizer, and an activist.
Liberty University is pro-life and believes that marriage between one man and one woman provides the best environment for children.
Teaching university students affords me the opportunity to demonstrate to young adults that they don't have to be perfect to make contributions to their country.
I'm very proud to tell you guys I have been accepted into Stanford University, one of the main institutions of learning and research in the world.
One of my favorite things on YouTube is the famous 1965 debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley at Cambridge University.
At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in a flat at the edge of the city.
I have a humble background. My dad was a coal miner. My mum worked a receptionist. I was one of the first people in my family to go to university.
If you're looking to become an entrepreneur then don't waste your time going to university or business school - just get on and do it.
After university, I taught in a sixth-form college in York for a year and a half before deciding to try acting.
In 1905, I was privileged to be given a place in the private laboratory of my revered teacher, Professor W. H. Perkin, Jr. at the University of Manchester.
My mum is a social worker and my dad's a roofer. My brother Nicky and I were the first two in my family to go to university.
The irony is that [Barack] Obama was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He would, most of all, know that what he is doing weakens the Constitution.
The World University Games Gold medal was a great confidence booster for me. It highlighted my talents, my performance and dedication.
I had gone to university and done engineering and then I got into art school and said I'm going to do this for three years.
My brother was the consummate Nebraska boy - the football star who went to the university, was president of his fraternity, hunted with my dad all the time.
The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
Every job is incredibly different, and I love it because you're picking up skill sets and experiences. It's the university of life.
I studied audio engineering at university. The background I am from, music was never seen as a viable career; it was always a hobby.
At university, I used to cheat and use precooked meals and then tell my friends that I've cooked it. They thought I had skills!
I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.
I have made the very difficult decision to leave my position as head coach of the men's basketball team at Indiana University.
The fact that I am getting a doctorate in spite of being a college drop-out proves that the world can be your university.
I spent a year at Southwestern Louisiana Institute, then transferred back to the University of Texas, where I majored in English and history.
I'm telling you, I could teach at a university, [George] Carlin, a whole semester. The construction and deconstruction of the words, the language, the order.
I worked in restaurants, bars, record stores; I did anything and everything to pay my way through university and LAMDA.
Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.
I gravitated to New York City in the late '70s to pursue a career in visual art, which is what I trained in at university.
It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is currently prevalent
Madaming is the sort of thing that happens to you - like getting a battlefield commission or becoming the dean of women at Stanford University.
Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free
society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.
Companies want to be able to hire employees with an elite university diploma to make their personnel lists look impressive.
When I left university with a history degree, I had no idea what I wanted to do, and I was terrified of accidentally ending up in the wrong career.
I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.
As a graduate student at Harvard, I had to explain quite a few times that I was allowed to attend a university as a woman in Iran.
My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.
The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a path out of poverty.
On his 916th game as coach at University of Alabama - I've been here so long that when I got here the Dead Sea wasn't even sick.
A lot of people talk about the one-and-done attitude of college athletes, but if you look at the University of Kentucky, we do build winners.
I spend most of my time by being at a university, hanging out with very manic, excited 18-year-olds.
I taught policy and politics for seven years at a university. I told my students lobbyists are not a bad thing; they're absolutely vital.
I started working on a TV show in Australia, straight out of high school, so I missed the whole university experience.
My dad was an actor, so he would try and put me off and say, 'Come on, you've got to go to university first.'
When people ask if Marquette University is in Michigan, and I tell them my alma mater is in Milwaukee, they sometimes say, 'What's the difference?'
It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia.
I got a degree in psychology at the University of Michigan and can most definitely sing the greatest college fight song of all time.
To make the peaks higher.
[His reason to target philanthropic funding to only the best university science departments.]
I write to be read. I'm quite direct about that. I'm not writing to thrill colleagues or to impress the professors at the University of Iowa; that's not my goal.
My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.
I'm going to prove I belong. There's a lot of skepticism about the type of player I am, where I come from, the University of Wyoming, obviously.
I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.
